I've heard some speculations that White Diamond knew all along what Pink's game was, that unlike Yellow and Blue, she was wise to the scheme and just went along with things to let Pink learn a lesson on her own, as it were. Which obviously explains why they showed up to a cheering crowd and her quick and immediate acceptance of Steven as Pink when he showed up.

I do hope the pacing does take it down a couple notches after this. We've had a lot of pretty major doings-a-transpiring in short order with little room for the more intimate character moments that give this show such life.

I do hope the pacing does take it down a couple notches after this. We've had a lot of pretty major doings-a-transpiring in short order with little room for the more intimate character moments that give this show such life.

When they were planning this season out they weren't sure if they'd be getting another season, so they wanted to end big. Presumably once we're past this it'll go back to being 80% delightful filler.

As pointed out here... Remember how Pink crossed Pearl's arms and told her never to speak of their plan? Rose did the same thing to Garnet when she said "No more questions." In Know Your Fusion, Garnet said she can't ask questions.

One of the most important episodes of the whole series features a gay wedding where the brides swapped their usual gendered clothing. That's going to be hard for the censors in other countries to cut around.

Steven being the annoyingly precocious kid in the early episodes now seems appropriate (if still annoying) because now we know that Rose/Pink played exactly the same role to the Diamonds.

I forget who pointed this out on twitter but Pink basically left her repressive family (the Diamonds) to be with her girlfriend. A cosmic queer narrative. Also, it's a version of Paradise Lost where Satan is corrupted by humanity instead of the other way around.

Also, I'm sure this is a popular fan theory already since it seems so obvious to me now but...

Red, yellow and blue are primary colors and white is the combo of the primary colors, so, despite the fact that pink is a natural diamond color, was Pink supposed to be red (the rarest color of all diamonds in the real world) and is she, in the eyes of the diamonds, an off-color (albeit one "normal" enough to be allowed into the authority)? Other off-colors are treated pretty damned badly, but being born into the right family might have it's advantages...

Apparently Dove's footing the bill for several of these shorts as part of a body imaghe campaign. It's an odd (if thematically appropriate) tie-in, but it's neat to see the characters animated this way.

If you didn't play it, this game is Paper Mario as balls and really good. Earlier releases had some pretty major glitches that took a while to be patched out, but it's all fine now. It isn't necessary to have played its (still good, but much more threadbare) mobile predecessor, Save The Light.

I looked around to see if there were any decent SU action figures yet, and still nothing... There is frankly no good reason why I can't spend an irresponsible quantity of cash on a posable Peridot with limb enhancers and meep morps right at this instant.

the boy has had close friends telling him for years to watch Steven Universe, and so when we were both sick recently, we started watching the show from the beginning together.

He loved it and has now finished the first two seasons; now Mr. LRLR and I are watching S3 with him during our family nights.

going back and rewatching the beginning is an uncanny experience, because you get to see with the benefit of hindsight just how much the series was carefully planned from the very beginning, and just how much damn foreshadowing exists. there's at least one ep in either S1 or S2 where we get our first fleeting glimpse of White Diamond's character design!

I looked around to see if there were any decent SU action figures yet, and still nothing... There is frankly no good reason why I can't spend an irresponsible quantity of cash on a posable Peridot with limb enhancers and meep morps right at this instant.

Kinda funny how we've come to the exactly opposite scenario from the 80s, where entire beloved shows were made up whole cloth to sell a toy line, and entire characters/vehicles were devised entirely to sell toys first and service the story later, and now we have shows with characters we desperately want toys and figures of, but there are none to be found.

So if you described Pearl and Amethyst's characters to somebody who hadn't watched the show and asked them to imagine what their voices sounded like, they would probably imagine something very similar to Deedee Magno-Hall and Michaela Dietz's performances. The only surprise would be in how fucking good Magno-Hall and Dietz are.

If you described Garnet's character to somebody and asked them to imagine her voice, they probably wouldn't expect Estelle's voice. I mean. Estelle is fucking perfect in the role, but it's definitely a role that feels unique to her strengths, whereas you could probably get similar performances from other good VAs for Pearl and Amethyst, if that makes sense.

To my understanding and from my experience working at a toy store, traditional toys and action figures don't really sell to kids the way they used to. Video games, blind bagged figurines, and adult collectibles are where it's at; and SU fortunately has all of those.

To my understanding and from my experience working at a toy store, traditional toys and action figures don't really sell to kids the way they used to. Video games, blind bagged figurines, and adult collectibles are where it's at; and SU fortunately has all of those.

Also that version of Yahtzee that used Garnet's gauntlet as the cup.

I can say from visiting my niece and nephew that shows like Paw Patrol sell lots of toys.

I wonder if maybe the reason Steven Universe doesn’t have much merchandise for kids is that it’s not very popular with the youngsters? It gets pretty heavy sometimes, and there’s not a lot of adventuring or monster fighting after the first season.